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"Ken
McMullen is the master of the long take,"
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"The
single take which passes through greater narrative time than the actual
time of the shot is where the real magic of Cinema can be found. 1867
is a film which passes through the 18 months of historical and artistic
events as Manet painted his four versions of "The Execution of Maximillian".
The gentle pace of the take draws up underlining anxiety as we approach
the 'execution'. It suggests off-screen action, and the camera movement
evokes mystery. A conclusion is reached through a whole series of contradictions."
Ken
McMullen.
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| "Ken
McMullen is the master of the long take, and an excellent example of this
is 1867, a film based on the Manet painting The Execution of the Emperor
Maximillian. The eighteen months in which Manet painted the four versions
of the painting is portrayed in an 11 minute take which uses the whole
of a 1000 foot reel of film. Ken deconstructs time and space within a
Bazinian Realism which reaches beyond the present, so that the tightly
choregraphed camera movements work to speak of social history and cultural
memory. He refers to the long take as a negotiation of technical and dramatic
realities."
Extract from: Cinema=ART+DECONSTRUCTION (or British filmmaker ken McMullen in Regina) By Jeannie Mah. |
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| Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of New York, The John Paul Getty Foundation and Channel 4. The film won the special Jury award in the festival of Historic Cinema, Chateau Thierry , France 1990: the special prize at the Sintra Film Festival 1992; winner of a gold Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival 1992.This film tells the story of the painting of Manet's "Execution of Maximillian"; a story that traverses vast geographical, temporal and dramatic landscapes. | ||
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Director Ken McMullen 10 min. Colour 1990. |
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